Monoplacophorans are a small class of deep-sea mollusks, Monoplacophora, with a simple, limpet-like single shell, long known only from fossils and presumed extinct until living specimens were dredged from the deep Pacific Ocean in 1952. Their bodies show a serially repeated arrangement of gills, muscles and other organs unlike any other living mollusk group, a feature that has made them important to scientific debate over the ancestral, possibly segmented body plan from which all mollusks descended.
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Distinguishing AppearanceA paraphyletic class of molluscs with a cap-like shell, inhabiting deep sea environments 1 Scientific Name Sources
1. Monoplacophora (Wikipedia)
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Monoplacophora
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a paraphyletic class of molluscs with a cap-like shell
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